Protected after boiling water accident

Dan Wood

I decided to clear off a small patio behind our house because figs had dropped all over it and gotten squashed and sticky. Since there was no hose nearby, I filled a giant lobster pot with boiling water.

Wearing sandals, I carried the unwieldy pot of boiling water—very heavy at probably eight gallons—to the patio. As I hurriedly put it down, water sloshed over the side and onto my left foot, making a loud sizzle sound and sending a cloud of mist into the air.

I winced, but was quick to declare my heritage as a child of God, divine Spirit. I knew that the belief that man is material and vulnerable to physical harm must be untrue, since I had learned in Christian Science that man’s real being is spiritual, an idea in divine Mind, and therefore cannot be injured. The reports coming from the physical senses were not the true picture and couldn’t be trusted.

I prayed out loud “the scientific statement of being” from page 468 of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. I stood still for a moment, holding to the truths in that statement, and then felt able to continue cleaning the patio.

The incident didn’t come to thought again until two weeks later at a Wednesday testimony meeting at my branch Church of Christ, Scientist. The readings were on God’s protection, with several mentions of God’s incorporeal nature. That’s when I realized I had experienced this divine protection from injury, and I was filled with gratitude.

Dan Wood
Sherman Oaks, California, US

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